Disney Junior (Southeast Asian TV channel)

Disney Junior (formerly Playhouse Disney) was a Southeast Asian pay television preschool channel. It is owned by The Walt Disney Company Southeast Asia. The channel is for children between the ages 2 to 7 years old. Its programming includes original television series and both made-for-DVD movies and movies shown in theaters. The channel also broadcast programming made by other companies. Some of these programs were first broadcast on PBS Kids in the United UnitedStates.

Disney Junior
Broadcast area	Singapore (until 31 May 2020) Malaysia (until 31 December 2020) Rest of Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Bangladesh, and parts of Oceania (until 30 September 2021) Taiwan (block; until 31 December 2021)
Headquarters	1 Fusionopolis View, #06-01 Sandcrawler Building, Singapore 138577
Programming
Language(s)	English Chinese (Cantonese/Mandarin) Malaysian Indonesian Thai Vietnamese
Picture format	HDTV 1080i (downscaled to 480i/576i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner	The Walt Disney Company (Southeast Asia) Pte. Ltd.
Sister channels	Disney Channel Disney XD
History
Founded	2000 (as a programming block on Disney Channel)
Launched	2 April 2004 (2004-04-02) (first broadcast in Hong Kong and Indonesia) 11 July 2011 (2011-07-11) (as Disney Junior)
Closed	1 June 2020 (2020-06-01) (Singapore) 1 January 2021 (2021-01-01) (Malaysian) 1 October 2021 (2021-10-01) (Pan-Asian feed and Hong Kong) 31 December 2021 (2021-12-31) (Taiwan)
Replaced by	Disney+ (Hong Kong, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan) Disney+ Hotstar (Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand)
Former names	Playhouse Disney (2000–2011)
Availability

The name "Disney Junior" has also been used for early morning program block on the Southeast Asian Disney Channel until 31 July 2018. The channel end operations at the end of 2021.